Safe attachment.



s. WLCR'ANE.

SAFE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-30,1915.

1,199,966. Patented Oct. 3,191

Witnesses Inventor Attorneys sAMUE'L w. CRANE, or LA FAYETTE, INDIANA.

SAFE ATTACHMENT.

Application filed October 30, 1.915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. CRANE, a citizen of the United States, residing at La Fayette in the county of Tippecanoe and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Safe Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a frame of the sort used in connection with account filing systems, and one object of the invention is to provide novel means for assembling such a frame with a safe or other receptacle so that the frame, as an entity, may be advanced and retracted with respect to the safe, novel means being provided for holding the frame either in an upturned position withinthe contour of the safe, or in a depending, advanced position with respect to the safe.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in View which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a vertical section of a safe wherein the device forming the subject matter of this application is mounted; Fig. 2 is a fragmental front elevation showing the structure delineated in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the platform; Fig. 4 is a sectional detail illustrating a slight modification of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

In the drawings there is shown a safe 50 provided in its interior and upon its top with depending guides 51 in which is mounted to reciprocate a keeper 52 in the form of a rod provided at its rear end with a stop 53 and equipped at its forward end with a depending finger 54. Rollers 55 are jour. naled on the side walls of the safe and sup- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 3, 1916.

Serial No. 58,873.

port slidably a platform 56 of any desired construction, the latter being provided at its rear end with projections 57 adapted to coact with abutments 58 projecting inwardly from the side walls of the safe 50. At its forward end, the platform 56 is equipped with eyes 59 receiving pintles 60 located at the juncture of a back 61 and a base 62, disposed at right angles to each other, the back and the base being connected by a brace 68, if desired, although the use of the brace 63 is optional.

In practical operation, the platform 56 may be pushed back into the safe 50, as shown in Fig. 1, the platform riding on the rollers 55. The back 61 of the tiltable frame then is disposed parallel to the platform 56, the finger 5% at the forward end of the keeper 52 is in abutment with the foremost guide 51 and the upper edge of the base 62 is in abutment with the finger 5 1. If desired, the platform 56 may be drawn forwardly and the base 62 may be swung down into a horizontal position, the back 61 assuming a vertical position and coming into contact with the finger 54; on the keeper 52, the keeper being advanced in the guides 51 until the stop 53 abuts against the rearmost guide 51, whereupon the base 62 will be held in a horizontal position. When the base 62 is tipped up into a vertical position, the upper edge of the base is in contact with the finger 54 and pushes the keeper rearwardly as the frame 6162 and the platform 56 are pushed rearwardly into the safe 50.

Any suitable mechanical. equivalent for the keeper 52 may be substituted therefor,

and the rollers 55 may be replaced by fixed guides 64: as shown in Fig. 41. When the platform 56 is drawn forwardly, the projections 57 thereon coact with the abutments 58 on the safe 50, to limit the forward movement of the platform.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a device of the class described, a receptacle; a platform slidably mounted on the receptacle for advancement and retraction; a frame'comprising a back and a base disposed substantially at right angles to In testimony that I claim the foregoing" as my own, I have hereto aflixecl my s1gnature 1n the presence of two wltnesses.

SAMUEL W. CRANE.

each other, and defining an angle in the frame; means for pivotally assembling the frame With the platform, adjacent the angle in the frame; and a keeper sliclably mounted on the receptacle adjacent its top, the edges of the base and the back being adapted to coact, respectively, With the keeper.

l/Vitnes'ses JANE P. Ross, 0. F. -DOUGLASS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

